“Geisha facials” are probably less sexy and just as gross as you might envision - and, for a little time only, 100% more racially problematic! Geisha in Japan, according to someone, would rub nightingale droppings on their faces in...

Tom Cruise is going to talk to Oprah about that whole Couchgate incident. And then he’s going to eat her brains. [E! Online] Old, racist cartoons available on YouTube, discovers the ever-intrepid NY Times. It’s good to know we’ve...

Associate Editor Alex Alvarez takes a look at how nicknames among minorities work to keep a good gordita down and why you, shorty, shouldn’t take it anymore. Words, in and of themselves, are without power. Their potency comes from...

Mild-mannered journalist, humanitarian and sometime-model Naomi Campbell has now been accused of slinging racial slurs at her arresting officers during her recent outburst at Heathrow: Now cops claim she called a WPC a “white ****” and a “white s**g”...

Surprise! Oily heir Brandon Davis is a racist. But only behind tinted glass, when he thinks you can’t hear him. A new strain of medical marijuana is being marketed under the name “Tom Cruise Purple.” Tom Cruise is, of...

Remember when British magazine NME kinda called Morrissey a racist? Again? You do now, jerk. Well, it seems another British mag, the Word, also called His Pompadourness a bigot, but has since apologized: The singer Morrissey has received an...

If you’ve ever felt your melanin was getting in the way of allowing your inner beauty to shine through, well. You’re not alone. Women in Thailand have learned from commercials that they have the exact same problem. “Smooth E....

We had originally intended to write a story that SF Weekly covered about a construction management company that’s been accused of fostering racism among Black and Latino carpenters, until we came across one, particular sentence tucked away within the...

Pauly Shore, while possibly under the influence of one or seventeen kinds of drugs, went on a rant about how black comedians are only famous because they’re black… or something. He adds that, in order to become more successful,...

Black, non-female presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, recently tried to distance himself from Jeremiah Wright, the charismatic and hopefully audacious “Liberation Theologian” and Senior Pastor of Obama’s Trinity Church by saying: I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I...

Looks like Jessica Alba and her The Love Guru co-stars, Justin Timberlake and Mike Myers, might be coming under fire for offending Hindus. Paramount Pictures is conducting a test screening for a few Hindu leaders to see whether they...

Vatosaurus would like you to vote for Barack Obama, even though you’re a colossal racist. Just think of Obama as a Dominican, he suggests. And, you know, of all the political commenters with other people’s hands shoved firmly up...

People seemed surprised that Latinos, when asked for whom they voted on Super Duper Ultra Mega Tuesday Gigante, were like “the person I thought would make a better President.” Whoa, people. Can you even read?: Asked on Super Duper...

Gawker is now on the “media bandwagon” about Latinos (and Asians!) not trusting Blacks. Even going so far as to post a video clip from Do The Right Thing. Cuz Spike Lee never exploited a woman, right Rosie Perez?...

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking that the Esmeralda County school district in Nevada lift a ban on speaking Spanish while on a school bus. The ACLU and its Nevada chapter have charged that forbidding students from speaking...

Frida Torresblanco, the executive producer of our favorite movie-with-a-scene-where-one-guy-disfigures-an-old-man with-a-broken-bottle, Pan’s Labyrinth, is accused of getting all fascist on her nanny’s ass. And not, like, in a sexy German underground video sort of way: Frida Torresblanco allegedly underpaid the...

A Brazilian model named Angela Bismarchi is celebrating 100 years of Japanese immigration into her home country by getting a cosmetic procedure done to make her eyes look more “Japanese” through the use of nylon strings. Head. Desk: Angela...

So by now you’re probably well aware of all this hugger-mugger over whether or not Latino voters are willing to vote for a Black candidate. As you may recall, we were a little skeptical as to the veracity of...

Young Latinas are more likely to attempt suicide than girls from other ethnic groups, according to a new study released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: The Washington Post on Tuesday examined the issue of suicide among...

Activist groups and Black models have lamented the lack of representation of non-White models on the catwalks of Sao Paulo’s recent Fashion Week: “I think the business is smaller for black girls,” says 19-year-old Rafaela Favero. “But I don’t...

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are really sinking their teeth into their respective election campaigns, especially when it comes to the Latino Democratic vote and especially when those teeth are being sunk into delicious, beefy tacos: Senator Hillary Rodham...

The Johnston County School Board in North, Carolina has pulled Julia Alvarez’s coming-of-age novel, How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, from their high school curriculum because one student cried to her mom after reading about a sex scene:...

A Cape Coral, Florida man has been arrested after threatening several Hispanic men at knife-point on Christmas Eve. Coal would have been preferable, thanks: A Cape Coral man who told police he was a Nazi and a member of...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, recently raided a tamal factory and deported twenty-one workers in an operation called “Operation Beanie Roast” “Operation Tamale:” Apparently making tamales is a job that many Americans want. Monday in its continuing effort...

According to a recent poll by the Pew Hispanic Center, many Latinos feel that all the discussion and debate surrounding immigration, and the stigma attached to Latinos as a result, are having a negative impact on their lives: About...

According to a poll (but not a Pole because, seriously, come on) sponsored by New American Media, minorities mistrust and stereotype one another: The poll found that friction between ethnic and racial groups, which at times has erupted into...

Latino and Black doormen like working in Brooklyn because they are expected to do less, says one kind of passively racist doorman: Todd Chambers, 38, an African-American concierge and security guard at the Gretsch building who claims to have...

A poll conducted by Manhattanville College says Latinos and Blacks face more discrimination while shopping than White shoppers: Most Latinos who say they’ve experienced discrimination say it happens while shopping (53 percent). Sixty percent of blacks say the same...

2005 American Idol finalist Jessica Sierra was arrested outside a Tampa bar after acting like a straight-up drunken fool: Sierra, who ended up being hit with several charges, including cocaine possession, battery, and disorderly intoxication, became really entertaining when...

The Charlotte Observer today published an “article” that reports how Latinos are stepping out of their bamboo huts and using computers to, like, email and stuff. The article is exploding with unheard of revelations about Latinos and technology, while...

The Ohio Hispanic Coalition is planning to boycott WNCI (97.9 FM) and its advertisers after the radio station aired a parody song entitled “Bunch of Mexicans.” Set to the tune of David Bowie’s “Young Americans,” the song aired on...

A Latino law enforcement group is crying bullshit after reports stated that NY cops don’t resort to racial profiling when they stop black and brown people and beat them black and blue. Just kidding! That sort of thing doesn’t...

A Houston judge has ruled that the city’s new “taco truck” ordinance could go into effect this week, much to the chagrin of mobile food truck vendors and the gordita-crazed masses who love them so: The new ordinance requires...

Remember the “Chandler Rapist?” Of course you do. Well, Mayra Nieves, VP of programming for New Radio Venture in Arizona, appeared on Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” to discuss the futility of using the term “Hispanic” in trying to identify...

You may or may not have followed femilady blog Jezebel’s coverage of Ashley Baker, the former Glamour magazine staffer who pronounced afros and dreadlocks “corporate fashion dont’s.” Her comments sparked a debate over the racial implications, and possibly racist...

We know the good people of La Migra would never let racism influence their work. But no one said they couldn’t let it affect their play! Until now, that is. The Department of Homeland Security is under fire for...

Andres Oppenheimer, Latin American correspondent for the Miami Herald wrote a rah-rah-rah piece on immigrant rights and advocacy, warning on the dangers of angering immigrants with discriminatory rhetoric and hate mongering. Oppenheimer writes: Remember the Palestinian intifada of the...

LA Daily News columnist Randy Jurado Ertll feels Latinos and Blacks should band together in order to pursue our common vision of the American dream. Cute! Writes Jurado Ertll: Some of the issues that African-Americans and Latinos have in...

A site masquerading as CNN.com, under the url “http://www.cnnheadlienews.com,” claimed the recent wave of fires eating up Southern California was started by a group of radical Mexican immigrants, going so far as to claim photographic evidence of these supposed...

A Hoboken, New Jersey police lieutenant is facing accusations of bigotry and discrimination from several Hispanic officers who worked with him. According to their federal rights suit, the officers allege that Lt. Angelo Andriani used racial slurs at work...

61 members of the Los Angeles gang Florencia 13 were arrested for specifically trying to eliminate rival black gangs, and in doing so attacking innocent black residents. Who knew browns could be so racist? Um, everybody. [Post Chronicle] [Image,...

Gossip site TMZ wrote a post yesterday in one-semester Spanish about Making Menudo, the reality show about the boy-band that launched a million pimples. The post said that the reality show has finished recording and that the new group...

LAist points us to some crazy college kids from Louisiana who, on a fun day at the beach, decided to slather themselves in mud and reenact the Jena 6 assault, then post pics of it on Facebook. (No one...

African-American comedian Paul Mooney has very strong opinions about race and ethnicity in America. He asserts, among other things, that Latinos should embrace their blackness and their African heritage. He’s a vocal critic of the double-standards and overall absurdity...

It’s almost comical how Andy Rooney, the CBS columnist/fossil so decrepit you can almost smell his flatulence through the television on Sunday nights, keeps saying offensive things about people in the press, but never loses his many lucrative writing...

Indigenous folks make great wall art, but who wants the real thing hanging around? Not the staff at Hotel Coral Beach in Cancún. They eject indigenous people on site. Like the woman they found hanging out in their lobby...

Prompted by last week’s news that the Dominican Republic is censuring a nightclub in its capital for discriminating against Black patrons and employees, a New York Post writer shares his own personal experience of being rejected at the door...

TV rots your brain. Let’s do it. We just caught a promo for a new game show that premieres tomorrow on GSN (formerly the Game Show Network) called “Without Prejudice?” During the game, a panel of “ordinary members of...

Ask A Mexican does something interesting this week. Forgoing his usual question-answer format, he opts to simply reprint the most venomous (we hope) letters he’s received since the U.S. Senate killed the Immigration Reform Bill at the end of...

You’re going to love this one. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government on Monday for deporting 29-year-old Los Angeles-born Pedro Guzman, a developmentally disabled American citizen who was serving a 120-day trespassing sentence in a Los...